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Blogs have developed in two major ways: as a personal diary online and as a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit the user's needs. This paper investigates one such blogging programme in India vis-à-vis its effect on au

Hong Kong's official language policy of 'biliteracy' (Chinese and English) and 'trilingualism' (Cantonese, Putonghua, English), announced after the reversion to China in 1997, claims to address actualities of language use in the territory, remove inequiti

The widespread disaffection of students from school is manifested in academic failure, indifference, and defiance. These problems can be alleviated, I argue, when an authority structure is developed that combines three components - freedom, power, and leg

The purpose of this article is to revisit Brown as a paradigmatic understanding of social justice and its barriers, by reconsidering Brown in light of the three moral pillars of democracy identified by Cornel West (2004). West maintains that authentic dee

In the sociology of childhood and youth, children have been conceptualized as passive subjects on hold, still in the process of becoming-rather than in an effective state of being. In effect, children have been conceptualized as the subjects rather than t

This article describes my experiences teaching a course on Transmedia Entertainment and Storytelling at the University of Southern California, a course which sought to bridge across multiple media and methodologies, to integrate the perspectives of indust

This article describes the culture of some English departments and the value system often attached to various forms of media in them. Because English studies so often values the letter, texts, and the consumption of these, it's been caught in its own hier

Examining the historical trajectory of these two "models" and the transformative practice that produced relatively high human development outcomes, the article identifies some common elements behind their success, highlighting the centrality of public act

Publishing in the Sámi languages has always been difficult. The Sámi are currently spread across four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. There are nine different Sámi languages, some of them with only a few speakers. The Sámi publishing indus

This paper aims to consider the recent interest in a type of qualitative research known as narrative research, discussing the relationship between narrative and identity formation and/or understanding. The main objective is to try to establish a link betw

In 2002, attacks on six Asian women and girls temporarily living in the Greater Vancouver Area, Canada to study the English language garnered significant attention. Beginning with the attempted murder of Korean national Ji-Won Park, and ending with the mu

An enhanced pedagogy, informed by the contemporary Jungian idea of the cultural complex, may help reveal the invisible cultural prohibitions in transformative learning environments. In this article, transformative learning as individual knowledge and capa

This article engages Axel Honneth's recent work on Georg Lukács' concept of reification in order to formulate a politically relevant and historically specific critique of capitalism that is applicable to theorizing contemporary democratic practice. I argu

There has been a widespread belief that teachers in Asian contexts including Japan and China are well protected by a tradition that reveres teachers. However, in Chinese contexts, cultural traditions have been found to undermine the teaching profession, t

PRIVATE provider Navitas will slash staff numbers at La Trobe's International College by at least a third with the loss of 43 or more jobs, but the university will have to pick up the redundancy costs under its deal to privatise the business.

We write regarding legislative and policy initiatives in the State of Arizona that concern us as teachers and scholars of language and literature. You have recently signed legislation (SB 1070) that may place nonnative speakers of English and speakers of

India is a mosaic of linguistic diversity. None of its 1,600 languages, grouped somewhat arbitrarily into 114, has a clear majority. Yet children often start school in a language that is not their mother tongue. Children from non-dominant groups are part

This article is adapted from a new Australian Government report, The Current State of Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean Language Education in Australian Schools: Four Languages, Four Stories. The report summarises findings from four separate report

A project launched in 2004 to halt declining English language skills among students at Pakistan's public universities has entered a second three-year phase amid concern that low language proficiency continues to hamper higher-education reforms and is putt

Thinking Chinese Translation explores the ways in which memory, general knowledge, and creativity (summed up as "schema") contribute to the linguistic ability necessary to create a good translation. The course develops the reader's ability to think deeply